Tag Enterprise Rockers

The Small Business Blog’s favourite author Tony Robinson OBE appeared in The Guardian yesterday calling for the state to help kickstart a micro-enterprise revolution. He even gave a shout-out to Stefan Töpfer, the owner of this blog and founder of the WinWeb Hub initiative.

Anyone who has ever attempted to run their own business is aware that there simply are not enough hours in the average working day to get everything done to satisfaction. Something always ends up getting compromised in your pursuit to have a successful micro business because usually the burden comes down to the sole employee…

Try to take some time over the festive period to do a little bit of informal networking. You never know who you might meet and what you might learn! For those in the Hertfordshire area of the UK there are two upcoming Enterprise Rockers networking events at the WinWeb Hub in Letchworth. Entrance is free…

Starting tomorrow (Thursday 7th November), Enterprise Rockers in the Hertfordshire area will be taking over the WinWeb HUB at the Goldsmith Centre in Letchworth. David Hardstaff will be leading the band between 12-2 PM on the first Thursday of every month and hosting an informal get-together, where like-minded businesses and business owners can network and…

Regular contributor and friend of The Small Business Blog Tony Robinson OBE is passionate about micro business issues. His latest campaign is a petition to draw attention to the unfair practices used by large corporations that are putting small businesses at a disadvantage. Not only do larger corporates often pay their workers badly, they also…

This is something that is increasingly cropping up in conversations from those asking how to set up their own shop so thought it might be useful to explain. I regularly get phone calls or visitors all excited because they have this dream of setting up their own shop and are bouncing away telling me all…

Enterprise Rockers co-founder Tina Boden has been very busy lately participating in the inaugural Local Indie Explorer Challenge. Tina was in friendly competition with Kath Turner, businesswoman and Chair of Federation of Small Businesses North Yorkshire East Coast branch, with the aim of encouraging others to go out and explore the independent businesses on their…

Band leader of the Enterprise Rockers and longtime collaborator for The Small Business Blog, the inimitable Tony Robinson OBE, is doing his best to keep micro businesses rocking. He recently attended an awards dinner for the International Association of Book-keepers at the House of Commons and made a speech at the event too. The 150…

I know Tony Robinson OBE has a crush on the Williams sisters so let me use an example from Serena to explain the mind set you need to succeed. The Williams sisters have raised the game, opportunity and fashion in women’s tennis but they are most definitely not who the tennis establishment expected to be…

Turn to the business section of any national paper, listen to media sources or look at business websites and you understand one of the major hurdles a business faces is ‘access to finance’ to start out or grow. But this problem does not end there – access to personal finance for business owners can cause…